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List of Illustrations 



PLATE VI. Wheat and Potatoes .... 

 Fig. 13. Making an Application of One and 

 One-half Tons of Quicklime to the Acre for 

 Alfalfa after Potatoes. 



FIG. 14. Grain Drill with Fertilizer Sower 



PLATE VIII. Wheat and Timothy .... 



Fig. 15. Thirty-five Bushels of Wheat to the 

 Acre, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. 



Fig. 16. Early Spring Top-Dressing with Com- 

 mercial Fertilizer High in Available Nitrogen 

 Greatly Increases the Yield of Timothy. 



PLATE IX. Lima Beans and. Potatoes 



Fig. 17. Ninety-acre Field of Lima Beans for 

 Canning, Freehold, New Jersey. 



FIG. 18. The Potato-planter with Fertilizer Attach- 

 ment, which distributes Fertilizer evenly in 

 the Kow . 



PLATE IX. Lima Beans and Potatoes 



Fig. 19. One Ton of High-grade Fertilizer Used 

 upon Early Potatoes is the Common Practice 

 among Growers in New Jersey. 



PLATE X. Fertilizers and Tomatoes . . . * 

 Fig. 20. Early Tomatoes Grown in Light, 



Sandy Soil, Thorofare, New Jersey. 

 Fig. 21. Growth of Clover along Tomato Rows 



Heavily Fertilized the Preceding Year, 



Moorestown, New Jersey. 



PLATE XI. Peppers and Red Clover . . . . ' ... 

 Fig. 22. Peppers Grown under Field Conditions, 

 Thorofare, New Jersey. 



PLATE XII. Fig. 23. Oats and Canada Field Peas 

 respond to Good Fertilization 



PLATE XI. Peppers and Red Clover . . 



Fig. 24. Excellent Second Growth of Red 

 Clover on Heavily Fertilized Potato Land, 

 Freehold, New Jersey. 



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